Educator and historian Sam Thorn discusses the Mexican War of 1846-1848 as a training ground for the military leadership of North and South during the Civil War.
Topics: Mexican War, Lincoln at the Library Series, Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns.
Al Gaff examines some of the personalities in the Sumter garrison, details Major Anderson's defensive arrangements and offers unique insights into how officers, soldiers, and civilians conducted themselves during and after the furious cannonade that inaugurated the Civil War.
Topics: United States Civil War, Lincoln at the Library Series, Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina,...
Margaret Hobson has researched the 44th Indiana Civil Regiment extensively and has published three books about this brave group of men from Northeast Indiana. She will shares what she has learned about the first commander of the Regiment, Colonel Hugh B. Reed. Before the war, Reed operated Fort Wayne’s first drugstore at the Landing and Calhoun Street. During the war, he fought in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh.
Topics: Lincoln at the Library Series, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War Regimental Histories, 44th of Indiana
Dr. Russell E. Gilliom, local dentist and president of the 30th Indiana Infantry re-enactors, discusses the treatment of dental patients during the Civil War era.
Topics: Lincoln at the Library Series, Civil War Dentistry, History of Dentists, American Dental History,...
The 2012 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture is given by Professor Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, United States Civil War, R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture
Guest Lecturer, James M. McPherson, PhD, explores President Abraham Lincoln's relationship to the American West and discusses Lincoln's lasting effect on the territory beyond the Mississippi River. This is a R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, History: United States, Civil War Period, 1861-1865, West (U.S.) --...
Sergeant Michael Burris, Crime Scene Supervisor for the Fort Wayne Police Department, looks at the Lincoln assassination from today's police perspective.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, Abraham Lincoln Assassination, Lincoln, Abraham,...
Civil War historian Al Gaff examines strategy, tactics, and some of the important personalities involved in the August 28, 1862, battle on John Brawner's northern Virginia farm.
Topics: Lincoln at the Library Series, United States Civil War, Second Bull Run, Groveton, Virginia,...
Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, was the annual keynote speaker at the 2014 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture. He spoke about the intellectual, political, and social history of American race relations.
Topics: R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture, Lincoln, Abraham-- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery
Local historian David Dew gives a detailed description of the days immediately after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the events leading up the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln Assassination,...
This panel discussion commemorates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Panelists investigate the context and effects of the Proclamation and offer varying perspectives—political, historical, and cultural—on the Proclamation.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Manuscripts,...
Nationally known Lincoln presenter, Fritz Klein presents a program focusing on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
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Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, Abraham Lincoln presenter, Civil War Reenactor,...
In this 4th annual Rolland Lecture Series, David S. Reynolds, professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, draws comparisons to the lives of Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist, John Brown. Mr. Reynolds discusses events that led up to Lincoln's assassination and the political atmosphere that produced his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Topics: Rolland Lecture, Allen County Public Library, John Wilkes Booth, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
Sara Gabbard, Executive Director of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc., presents a talk on President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Lincoln delivered his address on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865....
Mark Meyer presents a Civil War journey through the eyes of Hoosier volunteer John E. Wilkins. Wilkins was one of the first to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers in April 1861 and served in the Indiana 11th & 16th Regiments through the war’s conclusion in 1865. He chronicled his experiences in a diary and “notebooks of recollections.”
Topics: United States-- Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865), United States. -- Army. --...
Al Gaff, Civil War historian, discusses the Battle of Gettysburg and the very different stories of civilians John L. Burns and Charles F. Weakley.
Topics: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863, Lincoln at the Library Series, John L. Burns, Charles...
Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, provides insight and examples of how the image of Abraham Lincoln changed between the years of 1863 and 1865. Holzer traces the evolution of Lincoln from unknown to "secular saint" through a series of photographs, lithographs and paintings.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Early American Photography, Civil War
Dr. Edna Greene Medford, professor of history at Howard University, presents a lecture celebrating the sesquicentennial of the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dr. Medford describes the atmosphere in Galveston, TX, two and a half years after Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation and gives insights into the events of Juneteenth, June 19th, 1865.
Topics: Allen County Public Library, Juneteenth, Emancipation Proclamation
Dr. David Jolliff speaks on popular perceptions of Abraham Lincoln.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865
Nicole Etcheson is Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Her research focuses on the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Topics: United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, 29th Annual Lincoln Colloquium
Abraham Lincoln biographer Dr. Michael Burlingame presents the 2010 R. Gerald McMurtry lecture.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes, Presidents -- United States --...
Jeffrey J. Malanson is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. His research focuses on the ways the legacies and historical memory of the nation’s founders were used by Americans for a variety of political ends.
Topics: 1809-1865, 29th Annual Lincoln Colloquium
Sara Gabbard, Executive Director of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc., discusses the ten essays included in the book 1863: Lincoln's Pivotal Year, co-edited by Gabbard and Harold Holzer. This is program is part of the Rolland Lecture Series.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865...
Jonathan W. White is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. His research focuses on the U.S. Constitution, the Civil War, and treason in American history.
Topics: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Emancipation Proclamation, 29th Annual Lincoln...
He was born in Kentucky and started his professional life in Illinois, but Abraham Lincoln spent his boyhood, 1816 to 1830, in Indiana. Learn more about these years in Lincoln's life as William Bartelt presents the 2014 Rolland Lecture "Reflections of Lincoln's Youth in Indiana."
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Rolland Lecture Series, Lincoln, Abraham-- 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth
Jane Gastineau, Lincoln Librarian, discusses Lincoln's struggles with personal loss, conflicting duties and responsibilities, and family divisions and crises during the Civil War.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Friends and...
Civil War expert Jay Crisp explores Abraham Lincoln's continuing prominence in American history and discusses why Lincoln still matters today.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln at the Library Series, History: United States, Civil War Period, 1861-1865.
A"Lincoln at the Library" presentation given on November 9, 2014 at the main branch of the Allen County Public Library. Dr. Thomas E. Schneider from the University of St. Francis explores the unprecedented 1864 wartime election and how it still resonates today.
Topics: Lincoln at the Library Series, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan
The first annual Rolland Lecture is presented by James H. Madison, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Rolland Lecture Series, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Ethics.
Dr. Ronald C. White, Jr., a New York Times best-selling author on President Abraham Lincoln, presents the 2011 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture
Hoosiers like to think that our greatest president derived his greatness from his youth growing up in Indiana. In fact, Abraham Lincoln rejected many of the values of 19th-century Indiana. Indiana was a Democratic state; Lincoln was a Whig. Indiana was a black law state, with legal discriminations against African Americans; Lincoln’s policies as president would end the black laws. Lincoln left Indiana at age 21 and like many a youth, he choose a path for his adult life that differed from his...
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Indiana History, Abraham Lincoln's Childhood, Spencer County Indiana, Lincoln,...
Follow Lincoln's body as it travels from Washington to Springfield in 1865. Watch as Lincoln's tomb is built, rebuilt, and rebuilt yet again. Hear about the bizarre circumstances of Lincoln's casket being opened five times and moved approximately fifteen times after his arrival in Springfield.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Friends of the Allen County Public Library, Abraham Lincoln's Tomb, Abraham...
Lincoln librarian Jane Gastineau presents some of the election releated materials drawn from the holdings of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection of election tickets, pamphlets, cartoons, campaign newspapers and other ephemera.
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Allen County Public Library, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Friends of...
Lincoln scholar Frank J. Williams, a retired Rhode Island Supreme Court chief justice, discusses the Lincoln family’s move to Spencer County in southern Indiana in 1816, the year Indiana became a state. Williams also lectures about the Lincolns' movement from Kentucky to Indiana as part of the larger westward migration taking place in the United States at that time.
Topic: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth., R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture
In celebration of the bicentennial of Indiana statehood and the arrival of the Lincoln family in Indiana, historian William Bartelt, Dr. Brian Dirck, and Dr. Nicole Etcheson will present a program on “The Emergence of Lincoln: Because of or In Spite of his Hoosier Roots?”
Topics: Abraham Lincoln, Indiana History, Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana
Lincoln scholar and author, Sara Gabbard explores the events and personalities surrounding Mary Todd Lincoln's 1875 trial for lunacy and her commitment to Bellevue Place Sanitarium.
Topic: Mary Todd Lincoln
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